Re: [vulture@aoi.dyndns.org: Bug#100744: Binary should be in /usr/bin, since it's useful to non-admins.]
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Sami Haahtinen wrote:
> actually the symlink could be created in any case, what is the point in
> creating a single question for this?
>
> > This would allow people of both camps (ie. allowing users easy access to
> > traceroute vs. trying to make it hard for users to use traceroute) ...
>
> heh, well sayed.. 'trying to make it hard for users to use traceroute'
> this is exactly the point. making things easy or hard. i don't see any
> reason to keep users from accessing traceroute anyways. Is there any
> reason for this?
Network load. Keeping users from running expensive traceroute probes when
a simple ping would suffice.
BTW why not simply putting "alias traceroute /usr/sbin/traceroute" into
the default /etc/profile? Anyone who doesn't want it can simply comment
it out or unalias it later.
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